Obvious Supremacy

This recording is from Willow Creek Church in Wintersprings, Florida, where Dr. Pete Alunson is our senior pastor. Today's sermon is part 9 in a series on the Gospel of John. This message is taken from John, chapter 3, verses 22 through 36, and is titled, Obvious Supremacy. Now here's Pete with today's message. Father, we do come into your presence this morning, glad that we're yours. Glad that we belong to the King of the Universe, and Lord, there are times when we stop and we're without words as we reflect upon who you are. But our great God, you do that to us because as we stop and as we look at you, we remember that you're the creator of the universe, that before there was anything, material, and existence, you were from eternity, you existed, and then you spoke, and created all that we see here on planet earth and in the universe and beyond, and all that we can't see, you created with the mere word of your power you are far greater than we ever imagined. Father, today we come, and we remember that you are the triumphant God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that you are triune in fellowship from eternity past. Never have any need of anything, never have any need of a relationship, but you created us because you wanted a relationship with us. Lord, how grateful we are that we're not nuisances to you, but your children that you dearly wanted, dearly brought into existence, deeply love. We come to you today because of who you are and because of what Christ has done for us. We don't come in our own mirror, we come boldly to you because you're our Father because Jesus was our Savior and is our Savior. And how grateful we are that we belong to you and always will, and that now we're eternal as we're connected to you. And Father, we come into your presence today thanking you for forgiveness of sins, and we do confess our sins today. We go to the cross today as we go to the cross every day, grateful that the guilt is removed, the shame taken away, that we belong to you. And yet Lord, we have to agree with you that this week sometimes we made decisions that were without reference to you, we didn't even think of you. Sometimes we broke your law, we did what was hurtful to us, and to your name, and to our family, and so we come to you and just confess all that. We dearly want to leave this place today forgiven and feeling forgiven with the direction that you're leading us to for another week. So Father, meet us in the core of our being today with your grace. Lord, you know every need in this place, you know the person who has lost their job, the marriage that is not what it wants to be, needs to be, the kids who feel isolated from their families. The mothers, well Lord, who don't know if they're doing a good job, don't feel they are, but they are. The ones who want to give up, the ones who don't even have a good mother experience to look back on, feel cheated. Father, we bring all of that to you and you know our needs, meet us. For ultimately Lord, we need you more than any human being, we need you. Meet us in our heart, humbleness, and draw us to your strength. I pray today. Father, you know that we need to hear from your word, and so we pray that you would take it and use one who is limited and finite and let us hear from you today. May it be really your words speaking to our hearts and not a human. So we commit this time to you as we look into your word, we pray that you would make it clear to us what we pray these things, in the strong name of our risen Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You know we get to look at God's word this morning and we're going to do that in just a minute, but it is Mother's Day and even though Mother's Day is not a biblical holiday, it's not. Some of you think it is. We are not legally, biblically required to say anything about mothers on Mother's Day, but we would be fools not to. And I'd probably be looking for another job. And Mom's Mother's in law, stepmothers, grandmothers, you act like mothers. What women do is absolutely amazing in relationship to their family, the words that they speak in 24-hour time span, the things you do ought to be celebrated. So that's what we're going to do right now. What I have done is I have figured out what a mom would say in a 24-hour period. And I have condensed it to two minutes and 55 seconds. So, strap on your seat belt. Here we go.

Thank you for the counsel. I gave you so willingly, but right now I thank you not to roll your eyes at me, close your mouth when you chew. Take a bite, maybe two of the stuff you hate. If you hate you do not burp, you straight eat the food. I put it on your plate today. Get a door going smart with me, get a grip, get a drink, get a job, get a PhD, get a story straight and tell the truth for once for heaven's sake. Get all your friends, be in place. I love you. Mom, do you say every word of those words every day? Yeah, just about. That's great. That's great. I saw bumper sticker on Wednesday at Redd. Women are natural leaders, you're following one now. You are leaders, we need you and there's so much good stuff. I get so much good stuff, I can only use one time a year like that and like this. Why did God give your mother, give you your mother and not some other mom? We're related. The kid responded. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me. That is true. What kind of little girl was your mom? My mom always says, been my mom and none of that other stuff. I don't know because I wasn't there but my guess would be pretty bossy. They say she used to be nice. You guys are leaders, we need you, your kids need you, the church needs you. Keep it up. Don't give up. All right? God is using you in amazing ways even if you think he's not. We honor you today and by the way, who we honor says a lot. It says a lot about us as people and that's why as we look in the text of Scripture this morning, we're going to look at a text where John the writer of the gospel is honoring Jesus Christ because he says he is obviously supreme more than anybody else. Who we honor, who we honor as people says a lot about us and our values and what we're headed toward in life. And so we're going to look at who John honored and why we ought to honor Jesus Christ as well as the one who is obviously supreme. John 3, 22 through 26 is the text of Scripture that we're going to look at for the next few minutes and remember as we look at that this is God's holy word. John 3, verse 22, after this Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside where he spent some time with them and baptized. Now John was also baptizing at a non near Salim because there was plenty of water and people were constantly coming to be baptized. This was before John was put in prison. John gives us by way of parenthesis and historical note. John was always trying to root everything about what Jesus did in absolute literal historical fact. Then he goes on and argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. They came to John and said to him, Rabbi that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one you testified about, well he's baptizing and everyone's going to him. To this John replied, a man can only receive what has given him from heaven. You yourself can testify that I said I am not the Christ but I am sent ahead of him. The bride belongs to the bridegroom, the friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine and it is now complete. He must become greater, I must become less. The one who comes from above is above all, the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he's seen and heard but no one accepts his testimony. The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful for the one whom God has sent, speaks the words of God, for God gives the spirit without limit. The father loves the son and has placed everything in his hands and then he summarizes it this way, whoever believes in the son has eternal life. But whoever rejects the son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him. I want to look today with you just briefly about how Jesus from this text is seen to be obviously supreme and how he's greater than any other human being ever and in fact he's more than a human being before we look at that. I want to give one introductory comment that does pertain to moms, it pertains to dads, it really pertains to all of us in this room and it really is the principle of how we invest our time. It's the principle of growth investments based on verse 22 where Jesus says that Jesus and His disciples went out into the wilderness where He spent some time and did some baptism. And historically in the text of John what we see is that here Jesus moves from an urban ministry to us from an urban city ministry into a rural ministry. He leaves Jerusalem and he goes out into the countryside in Judea which is in the south part you remember probably in your geography of the Holy Lands that there is the northern area called Galilee or the Galilee is the Israelites call it today then there's some area the center section of the country and then Judea, the real religious hub of the nation. Jesus had gone to Jerusalem, cleaned out the temple and then he went out into the wilderness and began to baptize out there. Now we know as we look historically here that Jesus was out there doing this from about May to December in the year 27 AD for about eight months. It says that Jesus is out in this rural area baptizing. Actually if you look at chapter 4 verse 2 it says Jesus wasn't Himself doing the baptizing it was His disciples that were doing the baptizing. Now what was Jesus doing what He does best? He was speaking. He was teaching. He was developing people. He was spending time with His disciples for about eight months. He spent time with His disciples and He spent time with whoever else came out there with Him that He wanted to spend time with and He was developing people. Jesus is the most genuine person ever in the history of mankind. He was a genius when it came to relational issues. He was a great communicator. Nobody ever surpassed His communication ability but what He did even more than communicate well was that He spent time with people and He developed them. And if you think about it those 11 people Judas Judas out of the picture those 11 people changed the world. It's the principle that the chief responsibility of relationships is time and time invested in building people is the time the best time that you will ever spend. I will ever spend and it's the thing that's the hardest to do but what really impacts people is time invested. Mom's that has an obvious application to you doesn't it because don't you get tired? Don't you want to run some of you are about ready to have kids and you're worried about that you're a little frustrated about that and you're thinking I'm not going to have any time to myself again and the answer is you're absolutely right. You won't because you're on call 24 seven. I love this it was sent to me a few years ago and I haven't used this in a long time this lady writes in this life I'm a woman but in my next life I'd like to come back as a bear. When you're a bear you get to hibernate you do nothing but sleep for six months I could deal with that before you hibernate you're supposed to eat yourself stupid. And I could deal with that too. When you're a girl bear you birth your children who are the size of walnuts while you're sleeping and you wake to partially grown cute cuddly cubs I could definitely deal with that. If you're a mama bear everyone knows you mean business you swat anyone who bothers your cubs if your cubs get out of line you swat them too I could deal with that. If you're a bear your mate expects you to wake up growling the expects that you will have hairy legs an excess body fat yep in my next life I'm going to be a bear. Alright okay I'm going to have to repent for that but but the bottom line is moms here this application is so much for you the time that you were spending probably arguably the most influence influential thing you're doing even if you have a career and are a wonderful career woman out in the world. The most important thing you do is the straight errors that you send out in this world and no one can ever substitute for you. That's how important you are and I think that and the church thinks that and the Bible think hey but guys that's important for us to as men isn't it. For our careers to understand that even though we tend to define ourselves by what we produce out there the business we build the work that seems to flow back on us really. The legacy that we leave will be our children who live on after us. That's the legacy. For those of you who are in college we have a wonderful group of college students and sometimes you think I'm never going to make much of a difference you don't know. The words you might plant in somebody's mind right now somebody you're going to school with could make an absolute difference in their life as you stand up for him they will stand up for Jesus maybe because of something you said. Our ministry the time you spend with our children with you whoever we have counselors in this church a lot of your ministers in so many ways never ever ever downplay the importance of the time that you're investing in developing other people the principle that Jesus models is so good here he spent a lot of time with the father so he would have something to spend and something to give with other people. That's what we got to do a lot of time with him so that we have a lot a lot to give well that's an important principle I think these eleven people change the world it's amazing how God wants to do the same through you where you are. First of all as we look at this whole thing about Jesus obvious supremacy I want to I want to start out by talking about first of all an ego driven conflict in verses 22 through 26 I love this situation as Jesus goes out into the countryside and his ministry goes from Jerusalem to the to the country he runs into some of the people that are having a John the Baptist in his ministry now John the Baptist I call him John the Presbyterian he wasn't. Although it is theology he was but he was known as the baptizer right because he was baptizing people well his baptismal ministry which was a baptism for repentance was beginning to run into Jesus disciples ministry as well and so so this led to a conflict in verses 22 through 26 the disciples of John the Baptist come over to Jesus and there's some other guy some scholars think maybe this other guy that the disciples have a guy that they're having that this Jew that they're having a debate with was actually a follower of Jesus at this point but they come back and say alright they were arguing over the principle of purification of sins how does one become purified and they look at John they said listen the guy that you put your blessing on this Jesus guy everybody's going to him and our ministry is diminishing that's the ego little bit of ego that comes up right there we're going to talk about that in a minute but the Jews were legitimately concerned for the whole subject of purification purification of sins because they knew that they lived their lives and if you caught our worship this morning where we were going with worship and where we go every week is that we live our lives before this God who not only created this world but it's very much involved in it. He didn't like the deists suggest he didn't create this world wind it up like a top and then take off and just come back every once in a while and keep it spinning. God created this world and he keeps it going and all what we call the laws of nature he holds in force and in play and he's very very much involved the Jews understood that we live to use a good Latin phrase quorum deo before the face of God we live before God and God is a God of justice. There's a couple of buzzwords by the way out there in our culture today if you heard of this buzz phrase of being missional you heard that Christians ought to be missional and that's one of the buzzwords out there today and I tend not to use that but Christians have always been missional haven't they? Christians have always been mission oriented people. Another buzzwords a buzzword or concept out there today is that Christians ought to be concerned for social justice. Have you heard that phrase? We ought to be concerned for social justice. Why? What does that mean? It means first of all that we ought to be concerned for the societal structures and how they convey justice because we worship a God who is just and so we as Christians ought to spend our time trying to make sure that the structures of society bring justice into the world. Now do you agree that Christians ought to I see I love this see some frowns I think some of you are saying man this is heresy how many don't raise your hand? Should Christians be a part of bringing social justice into the world? Absolutely. Yes of course we should. Christians have always brought social justice into the world. Who was it? That first some of you guys I know it's Mother's Day and you're going to sneak away because you'd like to see the movie gladiator and so if you get five don't do it today guys trust me this is not the day to do it but you'd like the movie gladiator because you see the courage and the fight who was it? Who was it that began to bring about the power and the structures to bring down the gladiatorial games? It was Christians because it was Christians who said that is not just we've got to transform our society. Christians have always been about social justice Sunday school where did that get started in England in England when when the Christian church said these kids are working you know all the time we need to give them some education. The child labor laws every mom's and dad's kids out of work more right you can say amen yeah yeah kids out of work more but back then in the in the in that time when the child labor laws came kids were working 10 15 hours a day in very toxic places minds and other Christians were at the forefront of social justice. Should Christians are now you can answer should Christians be about bringing social justice in American culture in the world absolutely absolutely the Jews have shown us though what the Old Testament showed us is not only should God's people be about bringing social justice we had to be careful about how we lived our lives because we live before the God of the universe who brought justice into immoral life. God is a just judge and so in American culture right now we almost have some Christians saying let's focus on social justice and that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not about personal sin. Oh it is Jesus came into this world to pay for our sins so that we wouldn't have to and we couldn't have. And so when these disciples of John and the disciples of Jesus were talking about how can I get purified for my sins they were dealing with a very real and important issue because we do live before a God who is a just judge it was a very real issue how they went about the debate was what was an ego driven conflict. And John's people saying hi it's John the Baptist and Jesus say no Jesus is what it's all about and of course it is Jesus who is at the center of all that. Let me ask you this so any issue that you can think of in your life any problem that you experienced with a person somebody you're married to somebody you brought into this world if you ever said I brought you into this world I can take you out of it too. You can't legally and the church wouldn't support you but we understand the feelings. Have you ever had a conflict with somebody that did not have listen to this did not have some element of pride or ego involved you know you know what a fascinating truth is the root of all personal sin is pride. Every other sin springs from pride just amazing and even even religious types getting together these guys are both religious types and what are they fighting over. They're fighting over the right way to get saved the right way to have your will fight over anything we Christians we will we love to fight don't we we just love to fight and Presbyterians are the worst because we've organized everything we know it's true and you know we've got the Westminster Confession of Faith 33 chapters all have you know all Biblically footnoted and supported what we believe is right and we'll kill other people to prove the point. We think what we forget and here's an application for us it comes from this first point is that we are not called to win arguments or to change hearts. We are called to provide opportunities to other people my job is to simply your job is to tell people about Jesus Christ not to change their hearts to get the gospel out there to let them know that they have the opportunity to be put right with the God of the universe and accept Jesus. I'm going to forget college I remember it was yesterday speech 101 some of you remember having take that class speech 101 you have to give a persuasive speech. You know I don't want to do this I don't want to speak in front of the class see but see I'm I'm I'm a brand new follower of Christ and I'm jacked up and I'm thinking this is the time I am going to convert my class. I'm speaking I'm doing my persuasive speech on the resurrection of Jesus Christ so so I put that thing together it was a very good persuasive speech well I mean it was probably horrible but I thought it was great. But I quoted all the right people Josh McDowell evidence that demands a verdict remember that book great book evidence that demanded I want you know I laid the evidence out there it didn't demand anything there was no response except the one the one you hope was witness guy who came up afterwards it was a good speech it was all wrong was a good speech. I wanted him to die on the spot I wanted to do his funeral I want you to know and so what did I do I went on and on and on. I wasn't a minister yet but I was a Christian who was excited about the truth and excited about Jesus Christ and I believed that my job was to change hearts persuade them instead of just offer the truth. He looked at me and he laughed and he walked I think the laughter was the hardest thing to deal with but I'm learning I still want to win arguments don't you. I'm a guy it's all about competition but I'm seeing that it's a lot easier when ego doesn't drive everything but grace does that I can just lay out the truth like Jesus did. And let the transformation comes come from God you don't the win isn't that cool. Ego moms since this is your day build humility into your kids moms you need to understand dads if you have any influence in some of his life you got to teach him that pride is really the root of all evil. It really is the bumper stickers using the bumper stickers my child is a straight A student at whatever elementary school or whatever middle school you've seen all those some of you have them on your car right now and that's cool. I seldom have been able to have those bumper stickers on my car I love my kids I just not been able to put those bumper stickers. My favorite bumper sticker that I put on I've seen out there is my son it was an honor student at raw way state prison I like that one I could put that on mine and how important it is to love our kids unconditionally but to teach them the dangers that ego and pride catch this the ultimate failure of most people's lives comes from an ego. From an ego out of control think about that one I want you to notice secondly not only an ego driven conflict but a joyful humility the opposite flip side verse 27 through 30 I love this we're John the Baptist finally responds to his own disciples and he says a man can receive only what is given him from heaven you yourselves can testify that I said I'm not the Christ but I'm sent ahead of him the bride belongs to the bridegroom the friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him. In his full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice that joy is mine and is now complete look at these words he must become greater I must become less John the Baptist was a man who had a who lived his life with a joyful humility he understood he understood sovereignty and humility in verses 22 to 26 he understood that God was sovereign God was the Messiah he wasn't he wasn't and he didn't control much do you control anything no. Neither do I. We're called to lead we're called to influence we're called to do the best we can but we don't control much of anything and so in verse 28 we see that humility flows from God's sovereignty and knowing our place John the Baptist said hey listen I'm the friend of the bridegroom some of you remember your wedding if you're married you remember your wedding I was I was I'd been a youth pastor been in front of a church our church. But I was never more nervous than at my wedding I'm standing there they're going to ask questions that will shape the rest of my earthly life and I'm up there in my knees were literally shaking and I was never so glad to get off the front of the front of the church as that time I'm glad that was done John the Baptist saying listen I'm I'm the best friend to the bridegroom I just got to make sure I don't even have to be upfront all I got to do is make sure this wedding goes off that was their job back then the best man was in charge of the wedding back then could you imagine what chaos would result today if the best man were in charge of weddings good night but he says listen my joy simply is to make sure this thing happens. I'm not the center's attention here I have a non-compete clause with Jesus it's not it's not he says I'm so happy that he is becoming greater and I am becoming less there is a great amount of joy that comes with humility humility is having a right size view of yourself I read Andrew Murray's little book on humility this past week of year some of you read that book years ago humility just that's the title humility and then I went and looked up every verse on humility in the Bible and I was amazed at that how humbleness and humility is the way to live your life if pride will destroy your marriage your work life your relationship with your kids and it will pride will destroy every one of your relationships humility is what builds every one of your relationships and from humility comes every other character that Christ manifested. Paul says the great faith hope and love the greatest of these are love that's true but what does that come from comes first first of all from this humble recognition that God is a supreme king of heaven and earth and he lived this joyful humility let me give you a couple of verses. Matthew 1834 Jesus said I tell you the truth unless you change and become like children you'll never enter the kingdom of heaven not because children have it all together they don't but because they know they have needs and they'll ask for it. Therefore whoever listen to this whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven and then in Matthew 23 Jesus says the greatest among you will be your servant for whoever exalts himself will be humbled whoever humbles himself will be exalted the sure way to a train wreck in our own life is to exalt ourselves the sure way to personal success. Personal success is humility okay and ego driven conflict a joyful humility there is more joy and being humble and by the way because you're connected to Christ you can say no to yourself it's possible the word humble simply means to lower yourself on this day we elevate our moms the mothers grandmothers Nana's GGs you got a million names. You know we can do that with each other every day we can purposely lower ourselves not by demeaning ourselves. But by taking the track that we're going to focus on others is more important then an obvious supremacy I like how he ends this he he talks about how great it is that he's putting Jesus first and then let me tell you why Jesus is first first of all verse 31 Jesus is from above. The one who comes from above is above all here's why Jesus is supreme first. Verse 31 says he's from above his home his origins this speaks of Jesus eternity Jesus didn't come into being he always was. He always was in existence and he took on human flesh he was in heaven eternally and he came into this world. He is God and he came to show us God he is God who has come to die for our sins and reconcile us to God he is from above. I love the Philippians two passage the Philippians two passage that says have this attitude of humility which is also in your which is also in Christ Jesus. Who although he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied himself the word is canosis. He deliberately did not use his privileges didn't mean he ceased to be be God he can't do that but he didn't use his privileges. He emptied himself taking the form of a bond servant and being found in the likeness of human flesh being found as a man he went to the cross. The only way that we can understand and explain the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for us is that intentional love that decided to put himself down he emptied himself so that he could be filled with our sin. He became filled with our sin so that we could be filled with the righteousness of God through faith in him. He is from above and he reveals to us otherwise unknowable truth verse 32 through 33 he testifies to what he has seen and heard but no one accepts his testimony not no one you have other people have but there are so many people who look at Jesus Christ and they absolutely deny him they are going to be counterfeits every good thing is counterfeited I was talking to a friend the other day who had a Rolex watch I said yeah I wanted everyone to New York and I'm going to get me a Rolex watch on the streets I understand they have them up there cheap cheap you can get up there for 90 you know nine dollars 20 bucks not a real it's okay as long as you think it's real that's all that matters to me. You know good things are always going to be counterfeited Jesus is counterfeited I realize that many people look at Jesus and they say he is not the real deal he didn't have what it he didn't have what it takes he's not the way the truth in the life. I've done a lot of reading I've never found anybody superior to Jesus Christ if you look see if you can find one. He tells us truth that we could never find anywhere else but from him he's from above he reveals otherwise unknowable truth and then and then lastly he speaks for God verse 34 through 35 for one who whom God has sent speaks the words of God for God gives a spirit without limit. The father loves the son and is placed everything in his hands are application how do we take this away the the first thing is is as we think of Jesus as the supreme one of all this really has application to us and it is kind of a reminder that we can build our lives on him and trust him we can. Didn't you once believe didn't you once believe that you could trust Jesus Christ for your entire life and build everything on every one of his words I know and then we start adding other things. This is kind of a reminder to say he is the way he is the truth he is the life because he's superior for about build your life on every one of his words and don't build a designer gospel you ever thought about that so easy to build a designer gospel gospel according to Matthew Mark Luke John and Pete or you. We like to design our own gospel with the truths that we find acceptable Jesus except everything I have to say it's only way to build your life because he is obviously superior then when you mess up and you will mess up some of you guys forgot that this was mother's day and not many of you but you're worried about your marriage at this point I would love I would love frankly to know who you are. And I need stories of grace and survival and so if that is your story today then please come up and tell me I forgot and that's okay I'll pray for you but you know the thing that is so cool is is that when we sin as Christians and Jesus we realize that Jesus did everything on the cross verse we don't we don't have to rationalize our own sin our own failures and our own misbehavior we don't have to cover it up anymore we can say you know what you're right. Because pride doesn't define us anymore but humility does humility becomes us and so in Christ we can say I messed up is so free. It's so so free race dead man said my life changed when I realize God was for me. He's for you because Jesus was for you don't rationalize your sense like the guy who had to go to court because he got caught stealing and he came to the judge the judge I want you to know something I'm a Christian and I'm a new man and it was my own. Man and it was my old man that stole that stuff in the store not my new man judge looked at him so okay okay so we're going to we're going to charge the old man 60 days in prison for stealing and since your new man was an accomplice we're going to charge him 60 days as well 120 days in prison so easy to rationalize isn't it. You don't we don't have to rationalize just say okay I sinned Jesus paid for it and I can grow up that's humility then and then and then well I urge you to pursue humility humility is the only way to joy when you deliberately lower yourself because we don't matter really doesn't matter what you think of me even though I do want you to like me. You won't tell the gospel to your friends if you're worried about what they think of you you won't tell your kids what is right and what is wrong if you're worried about what they think of you you won't stand up. And let God develop you if you're worried about what others think of you I'll tell you what God thinks of you he loves you beyond belief and he proved it on the cross you take that to heart let's pray if you have never ever accepted Christ has saved your lord at this may not be the day to do it but it might be who you honor and who you look to is very very important and I just encourage you to take a couple of minutes something. On a regular basis to study the life of Christ again maybe just read through John's gospel on your own we're thankful that you even came today to be with us the know that it's just our privilege to be able to tell you about him and that he can offer you freedom from sin and shame and to build a great life we encourage you to follow him. We've had to deal with us ourselves understand that pride is the biggest thing that'll get in the way if you're if you want something more in your life then maybe pray like this God I have been too proud to admit that you're superior and I need you in my life today I I will accept Jesus Christ as savior and lord I do need to humble myself before you. Come into my life and then develop me set me free develop me father thank you that you love us so much we lift up your name today and pray that as you have spent time with us in the past you would spend time with us this week and we would be better for we pray these things in your holy name.

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